At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.'… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Reading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears, and incompetencies… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
... there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
When we live our lives with the authenticity demanded by the practice of teaching that is also learning and learning that is… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“if i am not in the world simply to adapt to it, but rather transform it, and if it is not possible to change… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“The fact that certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation, thus moving from one pole of the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“When a word is deprived of its dimension of action,reflection automatically suffers as well and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism,into… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“If I do not love the world, if I do not love life, if I do not love people, I cannot enter into dialogue.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world and, therefore,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“To begin always anew, to make, to reconstruct, and to not spoil, to refuse to bureaucratize the mind, to understand and to live life… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“The man or woman who proclaims devotion to the cause of liberation yet is unable to enter into communion with the people, whom he… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
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